It really is!

I do run wireguard on my router, but the main reason is ad blocking, not hiding services. Most services are publicly exposed.

Not sure if irregular booting is still an issue, but that sounds a lot like device names changing between boots. If I could hazard a guess - you’ve got something like /dev/sda in your fstab, where ideally you’d have UUID=1234-ABC. You can get the uuid by running

blkid | grep sda

Thanks for writing the words down! I struggle with that sometimes.

Cool!

Yes, data is cheap. Infra is not

I’m confused. Are you playing your local music?

Not defending streaming platforms, but this completely ignores infra costs.

Is this at a webserver level?

It’s a fairly common thing when it comes to abbreviations. B2B, B2C immediately come to mind.

And, to top it off - don’t beat yourself too hard. You’re one of today’s lucky ten thousand!

Yes!

In the most positive way - seek help.

Huh, TIL that’s still possible. Wasn’t in my case at the time.

I run my email server, but not at home. Running it at home is not all all more difficult, but it will only work for internal traffic and inbound from the internet. Residential IPs are simply blacklisted by ISP and as such - nothing will reach external recipients. Still useful, but is limited.

To have your smtp reach everyone globally you need to run it on a business IP. I use Linode, has worked very well since the setup in 2019, although they did get acquired by Akamai, which might become an issue at some point.

This is such an incredible write up of something I’ve never even considered to exist. Thank you!

I’d love to have things like that in a form of a post at !graybeard@lemmy.cafe

That’s not really the case. Have a look at AUR or GURU repo - most proprietary software is installed by simply applying the same steps an apt, dnf, whathaveyou package manager would.

Network? That’s a small bit. DB is struggling with IO at times, but network usage is fairly low, at least on my end.

It was meant as a tongue in cheek, not a dig at you :)

I think you missing just a few zeroes there.

Gentoo/Arch guy checking in. It’s more about having fewer codepaths to go wrong after some update. At least in my case.